Chaucer's Experiment in Narrative Metadrama: The General Prologue as 'Dramatis Personae'

Author / Editor
Henderson, Jeff.

Title
Chaucer's Experiment in Narrative Metadrama: The General Prologue as 'Dramatis Personae'

Published
Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 14 (1988): 13-24.

Description
Argues that Chaucer perhaps intended to allow the GP pilgrims to serve as the "'dramatis personae' of the Tales themselves" and to move among the complicated levels of reality in CT.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.